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The Elegant Elf Marketplace!
On November 11th and 12th at the Hitson Center in Sandy Springs (at 86 Mount Vernon Highway) the Elegant Elf Market will be open, from 9 am to 7 pm on both of those days.
The Elegant Elf Marketplace is held to benefit charities all over the Sandy Springs area, so you get two benefits from shopping there –unique holiday ideas for your Christmas list and an opportunity to help the less fortunate.
There will be two full days of shopping in a festive, “winter wonderland” atmosphere! This is the first of these holiday public fundraising event for the Sandy Springs Society. They are planned to each year hereafter bring together unique artisans and vendors from around the world to sell their products at this exciting holiday gifts and wares market.
But the Elegant Elf Marketplace is more that just shopping. Holiday decorating demonstrations will take place during both shopping days, including a very special Weath Making Demonstration with Larry Lucas on Friday November 11 at 10:30 am
There will also be a Breakfast with the elves on Saturday morning from 8:30 am to 10 am and box gourmet lunches available at the Polar Express Café.
Saturday morning will also provide a special and wonderful holiday treat for the kids. Crafts, entertainment, and breakfast will start the day; there will also be an opportunity to be photographed with some of the North Pole’s most famous residents.
The Sandy Springs Society is the largest philanthropic organization in Sandy Springs, and is a charitable organization of women dedicated to improving the quality of life in Sandy Springs by supporting non-profits in the community.
“We have over 300 Elegant Elves to work making this marketplace a memorable experience for all,” says Sue Winner, on of the co-chairs of the Elegant Elf Marketplace. “We hope everyone will come to see us, enjoy the planned festivities and shopping, and experience the hospitality of our great community of Sandy Springs, Georgia! This magical shopping extravaganza on November 11 and 12 will provide an excellent way for you to start the holiday season by ‘shopping for a cause’!”
For additional information and tickets, visit http://www.sandyspringssociety.org and follow the link to the Elegant Elf Marketplace
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The Perfect Pumpkin and More: Huckleberry Holler
This fall, there’s a place in Ellijay where you can find so much to do it will…make you holler!
It is called Huckleberry Holler and it is the home to a ton of fall fun for the whole family.
The things you can do (besides working your way through their field of pumpkins to find the perfect one) are almost too numerous to count. They include: a petting zoo, cow train rides, a corn cannon, pony rides, a bounce house, and lots, lots more!
You can get lost in the Haunted Corn Maze, go on a hay ride, play on the tube swings and tire climbs, have your favorite face painted, and enjoy live music at Huck’s Bandstand. You can even rent a campfire and toast weenies or S’Mores (or both). Things are first come, first served at the campfire sites, so no reservation is even necessary.
You can visit Huck’s General store and buy Ellijay apples, jams, jellies, fresh apple bread, tee-shirts, and more.
As for the pumpkins, Huckleberry Holler has a selection that includes Gladiator, Alladains, Elongated, Bumpkins and pie pumpkins, too. There will even be special “photo-op” pumpkins weighing in at over 1000 pounds!
Huckleberry Holler fall season is now until November 6, Thursday through Friday from 6 pm to 10 pm, Saturdays from 10 am to 10 pm, and Sundays from 1 pm to 8 pm.
General admission is $10 and includes the Corn Maze, Hay Mountain, Slinger Swing, Corn Bouncer, Tube Swing, Shipwreck Island, Campfires, … and more. (If you want to have boo-tiful time in the Haunted Corn Maze, admission is an additional $3.) An Adventure Pass includes everything in General Admission plus the Cow Train, Raptor Slide, Jumping Pillow, Corn Cannon, Apple Sling Shot, H20 Balls and Hay Ride.
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This Weekend the Apple Festival is Back!!
We were driving through Ellijay this morning and passed the fairgrounds –all ready for another weekend of Apple Festival. If you didn’t get to the festival last weekend, you still have this weekend to go!
Ellijay has lots to offer, but it is really famous for North Georgia’s apples (which are fantastic!) Every October, the Apple Festival offers the opportunity to visit all of Ellijay’s orchards along with lots of festival fun. This year is the 40th year of the festival, and it looks like it is even bigger and better.
There are over 300 vendors at the fairgrounds with handmade, hand-crafted items, as well as many on-site demonstrations of how selected types of crafts are made. Of course the Apple Festival parade is on Saturday (October 15th) starting at 10 a.m.
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Hemlockfest!!
HemlockFest will be held on November 4 through 7 this year. This is an annual benefit event to save the hemlock trees of Northeast Georgia. Sponsored by Lumpkin Coalition, Hemlockfest is always held the first full weekend in November just outside of Dahlonega (396 Starbridge Road, Murrayville, GA 30564).
HemlockFest is an unparalleled musical experience in a peaceful and beautiful setting. This all-ages, eco-friendly event features three days of live music, primitive camping, educational exhibits, arts and crafts vendors, a kid’s nature village, rustic living demonstrations, great food, and free canoeing. Both day and weekend passes will be available, and admission is free for kids (ages 15 and under with a supervising adult ticketholder).
HemlockFest proceeds aid efforts to minimize the impact of the non-native hemlock woolly adelgid (a parasitic insect), which is devastating the hemlock trees of North Georgia at an alarming rate. HemlockFest has affected the raising of more than $100,000 to support predator beetle rearing labs at area colleges and universities. This effort to introduce predator beetles, which feed on hemlock woolly adelgids and are a safe and effective biological control, may help to save the hemlocks in our native forests.
For the seventh annual HemlockFest, Lumpkin Coalition has again assembled an array of the great talent. Featured bands will include Colonel Bruce Hampton & the Pharaoh Gummitt, Saint Francis, Insonnia, Lefty Williams, Caroline Aiken, The Reese Boyd
Project, Steel String Session, Veronika Jackson, Mean Mary, Jason Kenney and David Blackmon, 710 South, Carly Gibson, Lara Polangco, Emerald Rose, Women of Heart, BlueBilly Grit, Barry Bailey, Pick & Bow Band, Unifire Theatre, and Glenda Pender-Emcee. Thirteen of these incredible artists will be featured on the HemlockFest 2011 benefit album, available for purchase during the festival.Lumpkin Coalition is a 100% volunteer non-profit 501(c)3 charitable organization formed to facilitate projects that benefit North Georgia, Lumpkin County, its residents and visitors.
Visit our website at www.hemlockfest.org for more information, tickets, or to volunteer.CONTACT
Forest Hilyer, Chair: forest@lumpkincoalition.org, 706/265-5282, www.lumpkincoalition.org -
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